COLT Telecom Group plc -- Disclosure of Directors Details


LONDON, Sept. 11, 2003 (PRIMEZONE) -- This announcement is made further to the announcement made on August 29, 2003 announcing Mr. Andreas Barth's appointment as a non-executive director of COLT Telecom Group plc (Nasdaq:COLT) (LSE:CTM).

In accordance with Chapter 16 of the Listing Rules the following details are disclosed. Mr. Andreas Barth is currently a senior advisor to General Atlantic Partners, a private equity investment firm, Chairman of the board of BOG Management GmbH and a member of the supervisory board of TDS Informationstechnologie AG. From 1991 to 1999 he was Senior Vice President and General Manager Europe, Middle East and Africa with Compaq Computer Corporation and had previously held management positions at Thomson-CSF, Texas Instruments and Ford.

Mr. Barth was a director of IXOS AG, a software company based in Munich between 1997 to 1998. He was also chairman of the supervisory boards of Netembassy AG and Syntion AG both internet start-up companies based in Munich, resigning in 2001 and 2002 respectively.

He has held no other directorships in any other publicly quoted Company at any time in the previous five years and there is no further information to be disclosed in relation to paragraph 6. F. 2(b) to (g).

About COLT

COLT Telecom Group plc is a leading pan-European provider of business communications services. COLT has over 17,000 network services and eBusiness customers. The company owns an integrated 20,000 kilometre network that directly connects over 9,000 buildings in 32 major cities in 13 countries augmented with a further 42 points of presence across Europe and 11 Internet Solution Centres. COLT supplies customers across the full spectrum of industry, service and government sectors with unrivalled end-to-end network security, reliability and service.

COLT Telecom Group plc is listed on the London Stock Exchange (CTM.L) and Nasdaq (COLT). Information about COLT and its products and services can be found on the web at www.colt.net.



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